Meat Manager

I think my point is three fold:1. This is what antler obsession leads to. 2. People in the "industry" and on covers of "industry publications" are the most likely to do something like this. 3. You unknowingly helped perpetuate this fraud by referencing (anonymously) "insider experts." Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's not weird...she got chased off by jerks for her style of posting, so she's keeping it short and sweet, 1 of maybe 12-15 birds harvested by site members this season. She posted a lot, true...unlike many on this site she also actually hunted a lot. Nice bird grow. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What's up with your sources? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's the point I was making, some guys like the opportunity to make some noise and run around, and I can understand that.But for me I really only use turkey hunting as spring training for deer hunting...so I'll stick with my bow, blind, decoy, box call and patience...works for me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was planning on trying for beard 2 this morning but... Starting to get too nice on the lake, between sunset last night and sunrise this morning I was thinking time to drop the boat in for the season: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The way I do it: Climbing sticks leave 2 on the tree with each stand, have 1 really light portable stick that I keep with me at all times. If I am in a public place with a lot of activity I only leave 1 with the stand and pack 2 in. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

+1 on not using shock calls, I got plenty of crows around and cant say I ever heard a gobble off a caw. It's fun to hear a gobble, but I wonder what percentage of harvests are from silent birds, 6 of 7 beards observed for me this season came in quiet. I think a lot of hunters just enjoy being able to make noise and run around. I know it is a relief from the intense still silence typical of most hunts, but I treat turkey calls the same as deer calls, few and far between. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

http://huntingny.com/forums/index.php?/topic/22688-Hens/page__view__findpost__p__301517 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'm pretty sure "I manage for quality whitetails on that property" is not going to be justification enough to invoke the necessity defense: "Such conduct is necessary as an emergency measure to avoid an imminent public or private injury which is about to occur by reason of a situation occasioned or developed through no fault of the actor, and which is of such gravity that, according to ordinary standards of intelligence and morality, the desirability and urgency of avoiding such injury clearly outweigh the desirability of avoiding the injury sought to be prevented by the statute defining the offense in issue." Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah I am sure cut on contacts are much better suited for that technique, but I don't want to change my deer set up so I am gonna just go for the throat.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I never missed once...in my experience those wing feathers just cannot be penetrated consistently with rage broadheads.On the bird I harvested I sank 2 in the body at close range (3rd and 4th in him) to try to finish him and by the time the arrow got thru the feathers and to the body it only had enough energy to pierce the skin and run up the ribcage, never penetrating the cage after the initial shot. Once I aimed for the neck it was lights out...that is all I will aim for from now on. From my experience rage 2 blade are not effective broadside wing technique broadheads. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Anything gobblin out there? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Stay and hunt as long as you have the time. "Perfect conditions" are great, but don't guarantee hunting success. At the same time there are many many stories of guys scoring, often their best animals, while all the other hunters are still in bed listening to the rain hit the roof. I harvested a turkey last week after seeing 6 or 7 all weekend but only hearing a couple. I also scored after 9am and in a ton of wind. Always be ready because it usually happens when you least expect it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I've also got a heavily used four wheeler/snowmobile trail on top of the ridge at the back of the property. I'd like to just gate the trail entrances (I've already posted the crap out of it)...how effective are gates? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I set up my plotwatcher pro to time-lapse capture the growth of forage plot 1. I set my MMS cam right above the plotwatcher and just got a text of a curios whitetail already passin thru (low res text): We got a hell of a downpour early this morning...glad brother covered that seed well. The pic looks like there was no wash out so that watering was just what I was hoping for. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There's a 2 year old dent in the front of my truck verifying hens will cross the road. I ate her in exchange for the damage. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Got greeted at the lease this evening by a lonely bald whitetail. Forage plot 1 has been planted in anticipation of some rain this weekend: Drilled the peas first: I broadcasted the buckwheat and some 12-12-12 on plot 1. Then while I broadcasted the first round of fertilizer on Forage plot 2 my brother raked (make shift) forage plot 1 over: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

After a slow morning in the blind I finished turning over and grading forage plot 1: Not bad for a troy-bilt mini cultivator and a rake: Shortly I'll be drilling a short-term warm season combination of buckwheat and peas. The peas are to get the deer curios about the plot, I don't care if they get munched as sprouts because the whole plot is getting tilled over by mid-summer to utilize the green manure feature of the buckwheat. Most likely sometime in late June I'll till 1/2 of each plot under in preparation of the cool season and plant sorghum and peas on 1/2 and later in the summer plant clovers and brass on the other halves. In the meantime I still have another plot to fertilize and turn over sometime in the next 7-10 days. Keeping my fingers crossed for favorable conditions throughout. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Haven't seen or heard a turkey since I bumped those two roosted above my blind first thing this am. Another couple hours in the barronett and then I'm off to finish turning over my forage plot 1. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just gorgeous out here...seems like the plants are leafing out right before my eyes: Fired up the mad hatchet and caught some movement in the distance on my logging trail plot, ended up being a couple of whitetails munchin my fresh greens...if only it was fall! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Back in the blind in 7j seeking bird 2. 32, calm, clear, light frost...feels like deer season. Bumped two roosted right over my blind on the way in...got a hell of a gobble out of the one. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Slowed-cooked pulled-wild turkey breast: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Pups and I got out to the lease late this afternoon for some food plot work: The early spring Logging trail plot is greenin up nice just in time for the trees to leaf out...and the early spray knocked out the competition really well: I got a round of spray on Forage plot 2: Finally I tilled and rake graded half of forage plot 1, nice and loamy with good organic matter and no rocks: Gonna hunt for bird 2 tomorrow AM and then finish turning over plot 1. I'll be breaking out the Hoss Seeder sooner than later: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I just threw 1 breast cut into strips and wrapped in bacon into the little chief with some Alder chips: The other breast is in the crock on top of a few strips of bacon: Took the breast scraps, deboned the rest of the bird and ground it into a nice pan sausage, the boy and I just had some for breakfast: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Both pics 3 & 4 show the tag on the birds leg, here is closeup of the tag: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk